![]() ![]() They hide out in the RV, and soon befriend the grumpy older man, who in turn seeks to protect them from the evil millionaire. They encounter widower Jason O'Day (Eddie Albert), who is traveling through the country in his recreational vehicle (RV). The children are smarter than that, though, and soon make their escape. When local millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland) becomes aware of their gifts, he attempts to bribe them into revealing their powers for his own nefarious benefit, with the assistance of his accomplice, evil lawyer Lucas Deranian (Donald Pleasance). Tony (Ike Eisenmann) and Tia (Kim Richards) arrive at an orphanage, guarding secrets about their hidden powers of psychokinetics and telepathy, respectively. Escape to Witch Mountain is not really about witches and such.īased on a novel by Alexander Key, first published in 1968, Escape to Witch Mountain revolves around two young orphans whose adoptive parents have recently died. (Mostly because of personal beliefs, but also because the banshees in Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People scared the wits out of me when I saw it as a child during a theatrical re-release in the mid-60s. Then and now, I'm not normally attracted to films about the supernatural. ![]() When it was released theatrically in 1975, and up until recently, I avoided the movie, entirely because of its title. "We've got to get out of here, before it's too late, please." ![]()
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